Color-printing device in cash-registers.



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COLOR-PRINTING DEVICE IN CASH-REGISTERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 31,

Patented April 21, 1968.

1906. Serial No. 328,524.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it. known that we, JULEs F m'mmxn and LOUls CHAMBON, both citizens of the Republic of F rance, and residing in Paris, France, have invented a. (lolopPrinting Device for Caslr-lflegisters, (for which'we have obtained a French patent, May 14, 1906, not yet issued; Gernutny, May 1?), 1906, not yet issued) of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to a color printing device applicable in a general way 1 to cash registers, and in particular to that described in French Patent No. 311813 or the 15th June 1901.

These cash registers are ordinarilyprovided with a checking band, impressed with the sums relating to the various operations effected (cash sales, cash payments, credit sales, general expenses, change, etc.) the nature of which is indicated by appropriate letters, initials or abbreviations.

inmost cases, in spite of their diversity,

the sums in question are printed one below I the other in one and the same column. (ertain dil'licultics result from this, especially when it. necessary for thc purpose of a check of any kind to separate the sums repsented (cash sales for example) for the purpose of totalizing theni.

The apparatus described in the French patent referred to above, automatically dis tributes the aforesaid operations into two dis tinct columns; in the first it placesfl or example, the cash operations or sales. and in the second it inscribes all the other operations. This automatic division however, although it facilitates the checking and renders it 111' rapid, complicatesthc apparatus by reason of the mechanical arrangement necessitated by the lateral displacements that must be imparted to the checking band for the division into two columns of the sums printed by means of one and the same series of printing characters. Further, this distribution into two columns by lateral displace ments, necessitates the employment of a checking band double the width of that required by the single column.

In accordance with the present invention, the im ression of the various operations takes p ace in a single column, with this peculiarity, that all the operations other than those relating to cash sales are printed in color, while the said sales are printed in 3 black. in these conditions, checking is ren- 3 dered more easy than when all these operations, arranged in a single column, are printed l in the same way on the other hand, the device by means of which the special impression in color is obtained, is very readily applicable distributed the operations into two columns, and therebysimplifies such apparatus. Finallylior the latter kind of apparatus, the cost of paper for the checking band is reduced by one-hall. I

i This color printing device, applied by way i of example to the checking apparatus which forms the object of French Patent No. 311813, of the 15th June 1901, is represented in the accompanying drawing, in which:

the apparatus comprising the printing disks adapted for the impression of the checking band traveling'over a rocking table, which printing disks are rendered dependent, upon operating disks controlled by the operator, and oppositewhich there is arranged the de vice forming the object of the present invention, and intended to produce the impression in color of the sums relative to operations other than those for cash sales. Fig. 2 is a section on the line A E of Fig. 1 viewed in the directionindicated by the arrow a. Figs. 3, 4 and 5 show separately in elevation, crosssection and plan, the-inking ribbon of the special color printing device. Fig. 6 is a similar view to that shown in F 2 and rep resenting the first phase of rendering the color printing device operative. Figs. 7 and 8 correspond to Figs. 2 and 1 respectively, and show the action of the device in question at the precise moment of the colorimpressiou. Fig. 9 shows a fragment of the checking band relating to operations o'l various kinds printed i in black and arranged in a single column. i Fig. 10 shows a :l'ragment of a checking band, relating to o )erations of various kinds, some i printed in biack, the others ranged in a single column. In this-figure the cash sales operations which are assumed to 3 be, printed in black, are indicated by fine 1 lines, While all the other operationsassumed l to be printed in red for example, are shown in heavy lines.

The device represented in Figs. 1 and 2 comprises broadly an inking ribbon a. which in color, but arto the checking apparatus which previously Figure 1 shows in cross-section the side of is similar to those of typewriting machines sales, further, the cam 7c is keyed in such a vice, is situate opposite astop n of the lever o which is free to move upon the spindle i, and, to ether with the part p, carries the or- 'dinary inking roller g which effects the inking of the characters on the printing wheels say to lift it in the ordinary manner, so that priately parafiined in such a manner that the extremity of a lever arm (Z freely mounted upon a spindlec provided on the cheek A of intended to maintain the lever cl always in appropriate means upon the printing wheel amplitiide equal to 2 2 formed by the characof cash sales, the printing wheels disand stretched between two small bars I) b i proceeding from a crossp1ece cfixed at the the framework of the checkingapparatus. This lever d is connected at g by a spiral sprin f with a parth mounted upon the spindlet' of the printing wheels 7' and locked by any appropriate means; the said spring is contact with a cam fitted and fixed by any j on the peri hery of which there are char acters suitab e for indicating the nature of the operations registered. Contact between the lever (Z and the cam k is effected by the intermediary of a roller Z carried by the said lever, and the recess y y of the said cam is of an ters of theprinting wheel y" reserved for operations other than those consisting of cash position that the recess y 1 presents itself to the roller Z, when the characters in question are brou ht into the printing position. The lever d likewise carries a pin m, which in the condition of re ose of the color printing deunder the conditions ordinarily obtained in checking ap 'aratus and in the present case every time t at a cash sale has to be registered. i

The printing table r, over which the band of paper s ,is unwound in the ordinary manner, pivots in the usual way upon a spindle t, and is connected by a rod a to a crank plate serving to actuate it, that is to the band 8 may receive the impression of the characters on the printing wheels j j The printing tabler is connected in the ordinary manner to the lever 0 carrying the inking roller g so that by means of this latter the inking takes place at each oscillation of the table. I

The ribbon is lined upon the face opposite to the table with asheet of paper or other flexible. material, which in any case is approto their action by the wrinting table 11. In the case of operations aher than cash sales, that is to say operations for which the characters 011 the wheel j comprised in the angle 2 .2 are brought into printing position, the recess "y y of the cam is is brought opposite the roller I carried by the lever (K. At this moment .tlie lever d is only maintained by the stop it upon which the pin m carried by the said lever bears. This stop serves to maintain between the inking roller Q and the inking ribbon a a constant interval, so as to protect the ribbon from being soiled by the roller. If at thismoment, the apparatus is started, it is obvious that the lever (l and consequently the inking ribbon a will participate in the receding movement of the inking roller g until the roller Z bears at the bottom of the recess y if of the cam 7c (Fig.6) ,while the said roller continues its receding movement until the extremity of its ordinary stroke (Fig. 7). As will be seen, the ribbon a has come across the printing wheel 7' j opposite the characters brought into printing position and it is by its intermediary that the impression takes place 11 ion the band 8, fed in the ordinary manner y the printing table 1. On the other hand, seeing that the inking ribbon a is impregnated with colored ink, the impression produced by its intermediary is clearly differentiated from the black impression obtained directly.

It is obvious that after each impression, no matter what the nature of the operation registered may be, the various organs displaced are automatically returned to their normal position of repose (Fig. 2).

Seeing that, between each impression, the checking band 8 is displaced longitudinally over the printing table 1*, it follows that all the impressions, direct or indirect (in black or in color) follow each other in one and the same column, as shown in Fig. 10. In this single column, the operations other than cash sales 0 erations, are differentiated clearly from t iese latter, owing to the fact that they are in color. The analysis of the checking band into debits and credits may therefore readily be efi'ected from the point of view of any kind of check either of the cash sales or of the operations other than. such sales. It follows that the checking band with a single column with impressions in black and in color comprises the advantages peculiar to the two column band from the point of view of distinction between the operationsjwithout presenting its defects. The two column band necessitates twice the quantity of paper, and a lateral displaceand a checking band, means for pri::ting transactions other than those of a predetermined kind in the same column and in a different color, com-prising pivoted arm, a printing ribbon carried thereby differing in color from said inking means, and means for interposing said ribbon between said printing means and the checking band when said transactions take place.

2. In combination with a cash register having printing means, a single inking means therefor'for inkingthe printing means at each operation, arid a checking band, means for indicating thereon in the same column and in a different color transactions other than those of a predetermined kind comprising a supporting arm, a ribbon carried thereby differing in color from said inking means, and means for interposing said ribbon between the printing means and the checking band when said transactions take place, so that the printing is done indirectly through said interposed ribbon in a diflerent color.

3. In combination with a cash register having a main spindle, printing Wheels carried thereby, means for inking said wheels, and a checking band, an auxiliary printing mechanism comprising a cam on said spindle,

a pivoted lever engaged thereby. a printing ribbon difl'c ring in color from said inking. means carried on said lever, and means for interposing said ribbon between the printing Wheels and the checking band when transactions other than those of a predetermined kind are to be recorded.

4. In combination with a cash register having a main spindle, printing Wheels carried thereby, means for inking said printing Wheels, and a checking band, means for printing in the same column and in a different color transactions other than those of a predetermined kind, comprising a rocking support, a ribbon carried thereby, a cam on said spindle engaging said support having a recess of an amplitude equal to that formed by the characters reserved for said transactions and so keyed to said spindle as to release said support at the proper moment to render the ribon operative relatively to said printing wheels.

5. In combination with a cash register having a main spindle, printing means on said spindle, ordinary inking means adapted to be moved across said printing wheels, and a checking band, means for printing in a color different from said ordinary inking means and in the same column transactionsl 6. In combination with a cash register band in a diil'erent color and in the same column transactions other than those of a predetermined kind comprising a rocking support, a colored ribbon carried thereby, and means for moving said'ribbon across said printing means as the ordinary inking means is removed so that said printing means prints indirectly through the interposed ribbon in' a diflerent color.

v7. In combination with a cash register having printing means for printing transactions, a single means for inking said printing means ateach operation, a cooperating inking means diflering in color from said firstinking means, whereby transactions other than those of a predetermined kind may be printed in a difi'erent color in one and the same column when said difi'erent transactions occur.

S. In combination with a cash'register transactions, a single means for inking the same at each operation, a cooperating inking means differing in color from said first inking means, whereby transactions other than ed in a different colorin one and the same column when said different transactions occur.

9. In combination with. a cash register transactions in one column, a single means for inkingfsaid means at each 0 eration, a cooperating printing ribbon, o difierent i color, whereby transactions other than those of a predetermined kind may be printed in said difl'erent color in one and the same column.

10. In combinationwith acash register having printing means, with ordinary inking rollers therefor, for printing dilierent transactions in one column, a cooperatin printing ribbon differing in color from sait inking means, whereby transactions other than those of a predetermined kind may be printed in a different color in one and the same column.

1] .In combination with a cash register having printing means, a single means for inking said means at each operation, and a checking band, a cooperating inking means of a diflerent color, whereby transactions other than those of a predetermined kind may be printed in the different color When said transactions occur, and means for actu ating said inking means;

12. In combination with a cash register having printing means, a single means for inking said means at each operation, and a checking band, acooperating inking ribbon having printing means for printing different those of a predetermined kind may be printhaving printing means for printing different of a different color whereby transactions other than those of a predetermined kind may be printed in the different color, and means for interposing said ribbon of a different color between the inked printing means and the checking band when said 4 transactions occur.

In testimony whereof we have signed our of two subscribing witnesses.

JULES FRYDMANE. LOUIS CHAMBON.

WVitnesses:

HANSON 0. (101cm, Lion CUAN HEUL. 

